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<p><P>Maps, as we know, help us find our way around. But they're also powerful tools for someone hoping to find <i>you</i>. Widely available in electronic and paper formats, maps offer revealing insights into our movements and activities, even our likes and dislikes. In <i>Spying with Maps</i>, the mapmatician Mark Monmonier looks at the increased use of geographic data, satellite imagery, and location tracking across a wide range of fields such as military intelligence, law enforcement, market research, and traffic engineering. Could these diverse forms of geographic monitoring, he asks, lead to grave consequences for society? To assess this very real threat, he explains how geospatial technology works, what it can reveal, who uses it, and to what effect.<br><br>Despite our apprehension about surveillance technology, <i>Spying with Maps</i> is not a jeremiad, crammed with dire warnings about eyes in the sky and invasive tracking. Monmonier's approach encompasses both skepticism and the acknowledgment that geospatial technology brings with it unprecedented benefits to governments, institutions, and individuals, especially in an era of asymmetric warfare and bioterrorism. Monmonier

Who reads Spying with Maps : Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy?

Author

Mark Stephen Monmonier

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226534282

Category

history

Subjects

Engineering, Fiction, Economics

Rating

3.48 / 5 (21 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13